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Singapore's 10 tech-geeks under 30 to watch

Meet an app developer who founded a tech training firm at an age of 18.

Singapore Business Review searched through the local app development market to round up 10 fresh-faced under 30 app developers.

These young men with ages ranging from 29 all the way down to 21, are behind apps for Android and iOS, from games to productivity tools.

Singapore Business Review calls for nominations for 40 and under most promising/influential people. Do you or anyone you know at 40 and below age bracket exhibit exemplary leadership and influence in your respective industry? Send a message to Lee Anne Babierra at research@charltonmediamail.com.

As Paktor's CTO, Jingshen Manages technical development team of 15, for Android/iOS/Web development.He has transformed MVP state product into 99.95% uptime product and scaled platform from being able to accomodate 10,000 users, to 1 million users.

Jingshen graduated from the University of Michigan with a degree in BSc Computer Science. He is an Ex-Amazon S3 Engineer

Position: Co-Founder of Replaid, a mobile app development solution provider.

George is responsible in coming up with in house projects as well as business development, sourcing for client work that is interesting to Replaid team. Together with his brother Sanjay Shivkumar, they started a branch office in Taipei in 2012.

Their highest profile app was Summon Auntie, which over 200,000plus downloads in Singapore, a proud number considering there are only about 500,000 plus cars on the road.

Jun Kit is Burpple's Lead Engineer in-charge of iOS app and has excelled in developing a world-class iOS user experience. On top of meeting Burpple's business requirements, Jun Kit is always on the forefront of iOS technical developments, and is enthusiastic about implementing the latest cutting-edge iOS platform features to ensure that the Burpple app takes full advantage of the iOS platform. He has done in a good job in maintaining high technical standards, by practically rewriting the entire iOS code-base. This not only greatly optimized the app, but also allows Burpple to more easily innovate on their iOS app.

His standards for excellence in app development has caught the attention of Apple, with the Burpple app being featured on the iTunes App Store numerous times in 14 major countries around the world, including the US. Most recently, Jun Kit's push to implement the latest iOS 7 standards have made Burpple one of the few apps to be featured under the "Apps made for IOS 7" category, even while still being featured throughout the rest of the App Store.

Age: 25
Position: Position: Project Lead / App Developer at Swag Soft, a Mobile Application Development and Internet Marketing company

Ming Hui graduated from Nanyang Polytechnic with a diploma in Digital Media Design specializing in Games Design as a major. He is currently pursuing a double major bachelor in Psychology and Marketing as part of his interest in understanding the needs and playing habits of a gamer both casual and non casual.

At Swag Soft, Ming Hui is heavily involved in the conceptualization, development and testing of Swag Soft’s projects.

Ming Hui manages Swag Soft clients' projects and coordinates both technical and creative teams. He assists in conceptualizing and testing of games for both clients' projects and Swag Soft's IP.

Prior to this, he worked at a start-up focusing on Gamification to learn more about human responses to various game mechanics.

As CEO, Ryan is currently responsible for building the Waygo team and setting the product vision. Ryan worked at an iPhone game development startup and co-created two games in the appstore: Wordlands and Quoth. Wordlands was the top word game in the Hong Kong app store market for six months. Ryan also worked on a side project called Tabber which has been featured in TechCrunch, Engadget, Gizmodo, ABCNews, and MTVHive.

Ryan and one of his friends won AngelHACK, a national hackathon, in spring 2012. As a personal accomplishment, Ryan also passed the HSK Chinese language fluency test after just one year of learning Chinese.

Felix is Burpple's first employee and has played a pivotal role in building the technical foundation for the entire Burpple ecosystem. He helped develop Burpple's first mobile app, on iOS, pioneering many features and ensuring world-class app quality and performance. He later single-handedly built Burpple's Android app from scratch, delivering a high quality app in a short period of time. Felix has done an excellent job in ensuring proper app development practices, including design standards, by constantly suggesting good improvements and subsequently taking the initiative to implement them.

His eye for detail and world-class standards have paid off, recently catching the eye of Google themselves, and the Burpple Android app was featured in the Google Play Store for 9 different major countries around the world

At an early age of 18, Sidwyn has launched a tech training company, worked with numerous Bay Area startups to build iOS apps, and has led the mobile team at Roomorama. He is Currently working on Occuhunt, a job hunting site.